A Look at Resort 2011: Chloë Sevigny for Opening Ceremony

“I had nothing else going on,” jokes Chloë Sevigny on how she found time while filming cult HBO series Big Love to design her third collaboration with Opening Ceremony. “All I’ve done for the past four months is sit in the park and work on this”—this being her pre-spring 2011 collection of sixteen highly covetable looks inspired by the favorite pieces and prints from her own closet. “I was thinking about how I always buy the same thing over and over,” laughs the actress and designer, in a leopard-print swing dress, a cropped cardigan, and Chelsea boots, “so I figured, Why not make five different dresses in five different patterns?” And with a little bit of help from the friends who inspired their names and silhouettes, that’s just what she did. There are boxy swing frocks, a sailor-style baby doll, Peter Pan collars, simple puff sleeves, and supershort jersey body-con dresses, all in a rotation of Sevigny-style paisley, floral, polka-dot, leopard, and houndstooth prints. Leather hot pants, cropped knits and printed tights by Fogal are also thrown into the mix, along with a T-shirt collaboration with the Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation. And where would a replica Sevigny wardrobe be without the shoes? Cue cartoonishly high clog mules with Minnie Mouse-style bows and a black boot revival—high and low—courtesy of cult nineties shoe brand NaNa.